Quotes About Education

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.

Learning is a critical part of our mission and organizational culture.

I was working part-time as a cleaner while I was going to college and then babysitting after school.

I worked part-time cleaning houses, and went to school full-time.

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

Girls who participate in Black Girls Code think of themselves as leaders.

In the late 90s I was hired to participate in a 2 year initiative discussing intimacy and depression which was funded by an educational grant by Glaxo Wellcome.

My mother was an English teacher and she imbibed the habit of reading, and encouraged me to participate in debates and the like.

When I became more aware and educated on the state of youth sports and the inability for so many who want to participate, I knew I wanted to be involved.

If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.

I don't have a problem participating with the youth because the youth are our future.

As I learnt Bharatanatya, I found myself participating in school and college competitions.

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.

We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

The MBA entrance exams are so quantitative-oriented that it keeps out more and more women from joining the MBA classes. If we were to make the entrance exams more all-rounded, you could see more participation.

We ought to teach kids more about the Big Bang and entropy and particles. Every high school graduate should know that everything in the universe is made of a handful of particles. That's not a hard thing to know. But that's not what's emphasized.

During high school, I wanted to work in architecture or engineering for no particular reason.

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

Electrical engineering, particularly at MIT, was the hardest major, so I said, 'You know, how about we try that and see how it goes.'

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

Governments should encourage and facilitate the teaching of history, but one does not want them to be able to dictate, for political or partisan reasons, what kind of history and interpretations are on offer to children.

I've started to read more factual books, partly because I didn't go to university.